Volume 1: The Three Dragons' Protector Chapter 19: The Watch
Liu Sanyan's words reminded me that no one would elaborate a trap for no reason, and we must first understand this person's purpose. If there is a limit to the number of times this cycle occurs, we may be fine if we touch it once or twice, but what if the number of more than one fails at a time? That's a real fall.
They all felt that the situation was serious, and everyone stopped and picked it up again.
Judging from the clues in the tomb, this place was first mined by the Yue people, regardless of whether this abyss was naturally formed or dug up by the Yue people for generations, in short, the Yue people came here first and made an abyss of this scale. Then Guo Tong didn't know how to know such a place, and he thought it was good to be buried here after death, so he found Cai Geng to help him build. Cai Geng's kind of master must have entered the tomb of the Yue Kingdom, and must have found the abyss, and then also came here, judging from the details of the plank road and iron cable repaired along the way, the hanging coffin is likely to be made by him, not to mention whether the technology of the Yue Kingdom period is so developed, thousands of years, the iron cable has long been rusted, and the hanging coffin will naturally fall.
Cai Geng made such a hanging coffin, it must be used to lie people, as for whether he was lying by himself or Guo Tong, there was no evidence to be found anyway. And then after a few hundred years, there was a group of tomb robbers, this group of people looked very similar to me and died on it, and then they also came here, as for how many people came, it doesn't matter if those bones were hung up when they came in or when they went out, anyway, they felt that they couldn't get out, and then there was a guy who looked like me who knew that he couldn't get out, and pulled out the corpse in the original coffin to sleep by himself, based on Professor Wu's repeated emphasis that the Yang family who entered this line are all old, it is estimated that no one in our pile can compare to him, He can't even get out? Aren't we even more unable to get out?
But why did you leave a message to us and give us a fire bead? Are you afraid that we will be angry and ashamed when we know that we can't get out, and we will have a dove to occupy the magpie's nest? Deliberately leave us hope, and after repeating it a few times, fall into the abyss and really die?
There is also a strange question, why is it that only I don't feel hot when I take the fire beads? Isn't this the same as the magic weapon in mythology, with self-consciousness to choose the master? That's a bit of a stretch.
No, no, what is written on the cotton silk is: Those who are destined to hold the beads and retreat quickly!
But anyone can take it from the fire bead box, and that thing is not heavy, who is willing to give up and not take it away, and it doesn't matter if you are destined or not, this is obviously a redundant move, he does it himself, how can he not understand the urine nature of the inverted fighter?
Could this sentence be another meaning, Zhang Yuan can take it, is it a fateful person? As long as he has it in his hands, we can get out? Isn't it destined that people can't get out even if they hold the box? Miss Luo came up with another explanation.
Applejack said, "We'll find out if we try it, we can't guess the result here anyway, so it's a big deal to bungee jump again." ”
I don't want to take this fish-picking beads, such an evil thing will cost me my life if it doesn't work, and why can I take it? Am I any different from them? If the so-called Zhiyang body is the person who is destined to leave the fire bead, didn't Miss Luo also say that all the Yang family members who enter this line are the Zhiyang body, that is to say, the lying one is the same, since he knows that he can go out with the bead, why don't he go out?
"Uncle Wu, what is this fire bead? Can you tell us about it? "It's a matter of life, and I have to be cautious.
Professor Wu shook his head and said: "I don't know much, I only heard my grandfather say that there are four kinds of five-element beads from the fire dry golden Xunmu sinking water, although I spent a long time checking the news in this regard, but there are very few sporadic ones, I don't know if there is no record of this aspect or some mysterious force deliberately erased it." ”
Then Professor Wu told us something else.
His grandfather died not long after he came out of the Han tomb, and it was very strange after his death, his grandfather repeatedly told him to cremate with camphor wood immediately after his death, cremation was not popular at that time, and it was basically a burial, but Professor Wu They still obeyed the advice, but there is a custom that the mortuary is to stop the morgue for three days before entering the ground, and the Wu family needs time to prepare the old man's funeral, so it was delayed.
By the time the coffin was ready to be cremated three days later, the body had already ossified, and this rigidity was not the normal stiffness of the corpse, but it had become like a stone, like a finger that was no different from a stone. Wu Tianjia hurriedly carried the body to be cremated, but the coffin had already burned to ashes after the fire burned for a long time, and the corpse did not change at all, only some hair and clothes were burned.
At this time, a young man from the Wu family came and said to the corpse: "I know that you are unwilling, but you are no longer you, go where you should go." ”
After biting his finger and drawing a blood rune on the corpse, the young man said indifferently to the Wu family: "Now you can burn it, all of your Wu family members who belong to cows, dragons, sheep, dogs, and those whose birthdays are in March, June, September, and December have turned around, remember that no matter what movement you hear, you can't turn around and look." ”
Professor Wu is a dragon, so he can only turn around and the corpse is cremated again, at this time Professor Wu heard the tragic wail of the corpse, and those who did not turn around seemed to have seen a ghost, all of them turned pale, and even some of them were scared to pee, and it took half a pillar of incense to calm down.
Finally successfully cremated, the young man did not rush to leave, and asked the Wu family for some wine to drink, maybe it was too much to drink, saying that the five elements of pearls handed down in ancient times were the five beads of dry gold Xunmu sinking water from the fire and earth, and collecting the five beads can open an ancient secret, since ancient times, people have been looking for it, but unfortunately no one has collected it all in his life. What is in the tomb of the Han Dynasty in Shaanxi is Gen Tuzhu, and he can only explain so much to the Wu family.
Later, Professor Wu learned that in that operation, not only his grandfather went, but the thirteen families all sent representatives, and even some lonely tomb robber families were invited, but only the Yang family did not arrive.
There are very few people who can come back alive, but they don't mention a word about it, and the mysterious power behind it makes people shudder, so Professor Wu doesn't dare to check it anymore.
Feelings: Professor Wu knows a limited amount of things, so it's better not to know, and I am even more nervous when I hear it.
Through the fog, I could vaguely see the hanging coffin, but the atmosphere of the crowd was strangely quiet, and I felt so nervous that my heart was about to jump out of my voice when I walked among the people, as if you knew that there was a poisonous snake in front of you before, and now I don't know if it has crawled away, but you have to go over to confirm. Maybe it's gone, then everything will be fine, if it's still there, it's going to die, it's really a fucked thing to test the heart.
I was tortured to the point of collapse, and I guess I would go crazy without finding something to talk about, so I stopped and said, "What if we're still hanging in the coffin?" ”
Under normal circumstances, you would think it would be funny to hear this question, but now no one thinks it's funny, and Miss Luo, who is not even afraid of ghosts, turned pale and said with some trembling: "You mean that there may be another group of 'us' down there?" ”
"What if?"
I always feel unrealistic, five people together in the same illusion, can communicate in the illusion, but in the real but lying on the hanging coffin still, isn't this bizarre?
Suppose we are still in the fantasy world, and we do not follow the set plot route of resurrection and rebirth, but return to the starting point along the way. Are we still lying in the coffin? So the question is, what are we now?
How would you feel if you suddenly met someone who looked exactly like you? Okay, you can accept coincidences with your care, and even think that they are your long-lost twins, but when your special group of people meets another group of people who are exactly the same, you will be scared to death no matter how big your eyes are.
"In my opinion, even if I really meet another group of 'us' and kill me directly, I am me, and there can be no other real 'me'." Liu Sanyan's eyes flashed fiercely, and he said fiercely.
I asked curiously, "How can you be sure that you are the real you now?" If you are not the real you, but you kill the real 'you', are you really dead? ”
"It was probably the most brutal suicide in history." Applejack teases, but no one laughs now.
Stopped all the way, and now I have to stop, Liu Sanyan and a few people smoked stuffy cigarettes, I also lit one when I was bored, and I choked and coughed after taking a puff, but it was relieved a lot, maybe it was distracted.
Miss Luo analyzed: "Assuming that we are in a fantasy now, that is to say, we have not woken up in reality, and we may be able to see the real us in a coma after we go down." ”
I said, "But the problem is that the second uncle didn't get into the illusion, if we were in a coma in reality, they would definitely be awake." ”
"According to me, don't be here mother-in-law, just go down and see if it's okay, if you really want to do it, it's fate, even if you commit suicide, you have to be like a man, be heroic." Liu San stared, and I found that he should belong to the kind of person who is careful but impatient, and this kind of person often makes decisive decisions.
But he was not wrong about this, he couldn't go and go, so he could only face reality.
The group continued to walk down, and after walking for long, Applejack in front of him slipped and almost fell, but fortunately he was agile and grabbed a stake with his backhand to stabilize his body.
Professor Wu said, "Are you alright? Be careful. ”
"I'm fine, what is this? Blood? Applejack crouches down and touches the ground with her hand.
When we got closer, there was a pool of blood on the ground, and it didn't seem to have been left for long. But we didn't find it when we went up just now, where did this blood come from?
There is water flowing in above the abyss, and it is relatively humid inside, but perhaps due to the soil problem, there is no vegetation growing there, and not even moss is found. It is also possible that the water comes in when there is plenty of rain in the season, and in the autumn and winter, it may be dry here.
We were surrounded by lights, and suddenly a piece of minced meat fell, which just fell on Liu Sanyan's head, startled him, and immediately shook it off, and it turned out to be a piece of human flesh with skin under the light.
The minced meat was half the size of a palm, a piece of forearm, with a bit of bone slag. At this time, everyone was a little immune to the corpse, and when they looked up, they saw something hanging from a large stone protruding from above, and the blood on the ground was flowing down.
Applejack climbed up and dragged down the hanging things, this is a corpse, but it has long been unrecognizable, very badly damaged, only the small half of the body on the left, the body is hung on the stone by tattered clothes, it can be said that it has fallen into meat sauce, this small half of the body is like mud, I can see that I vomit, I can't tell who it is, I can only see from the material of the clothes that belong to the miner's overalls.
"Who could this be? Could it be that something happened to the locals? "I was secretly worried that Uncle Ercai had already been killed, and I regretted that I didn't persuade them to go together at that time.
Brother Ying and Cai died in the forest, and when they died, all their flesh and blood were sucked dry, it could not be their corpses, and Uncle Ercai was even more impossible, he was poisoned by the corpse and his whole body was black, and only the local Yankees were left in work clothes, and maybe there were other people who were with Miss Luo before. But how did they get here? Why did you accidentally fall to your death? Or is it that he was dead when he fell, and he was thrown down by a big horse bird or something.
"It's strange, no matter who he is, he fell like this, why didn't we notice any movement at all?" Applejack asked, confused.
It is indeed very unreasonable, the depth of the abyss is true, but it is not very large, and the propagation of sound in this environment will be more obvious, and we cannot not hear any movement, unless the person is not falling, but hanging on by something.
We searched around and didn't find any traces, this kind of place has no living activities all year round, there must be traces of living creatures walking by, but we didn't find it, is it a big horse bird flying down and hanging here?
Applejack pulls a red-headed fly out of her clothes and asks us, "Do you have any impressions of this?" ”
Looking at the red-headed fly, I felt very familiar, a chill came out of my heart, and I turned my head to look at Brother Marijuana, who was also puzzled, digging and digging on his body, but he didn't take out anything at all.
There is a custom in my hometown, but all people in the year of their birth have to have a little red on their bodies, women usually tie their hair with red-headed flies, and men either wear red underwear, and some wear red rope knots, and Brother Hemp is Chinese New Year's Eve six, I remember that he has a red head rope, which he wears on his body every day.
"Is it yours?" I asked Brother Marijuana tremblingly.
Brother Hemp said in horror: "It seems that I remember that I stuffed it in this pocket when there was an accident in the well, how could I run away from this person?" ”
Is this mutilated body marijuana? So what's going on with this marijuana in front of you?
Everyone knows that the red head rope is the natal thing of marijuana, and it is not a valuable thing, even if you really pick it up, you will return it to him immediately. We are the only people who have been exposed to marijuana, regardless of how many people died when Miss Luo came in, anyway, marijuana had not been exposed to them when they were alive, so it can be judged that the red-headed rope could not have appeared on those people.
Judging from the characteristics of the corpse, it won't be Uncle Ercai, nor will it be Brother Ying's Caisheng, then there is only one possibility, this person is a local Yankee, he picked up the marijuana red head rope, but why didn't he return the marijuana? And after the death, the road is thrilling, and normal people will not deliberately pick it up and keep it even if they see such a worthless thing, which is a little unreasonable.
There is another point, the local Yankees stayed with Uncle Ercai and did not come in, theoretically they could not be separated, unless they ran away in danger, otherwise Uncle Ercai was killed, and the local Yankees should not be able to escape.
If you exclude the locals, there is only one possibility, and the corpse is marijuana.
One is falling from a high altitude, we can't all be unaware of the movement, then it can only be the first two times we fell down when the marijuana fell to death, and now he is no longer the real him.
Many people are the same as I thought, and can't help but stay away from marijuana, if the hypothesis comes true, it will be more than just a fantasy.
The second uncle patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't think nonsense, isn't marijuana good, maybe this is the corpse you imagined, don't you also say that it may be in the illusion now?" ”
The second uncle's words reminded us, and while we were relieved, we always felt a little uneasy.
Now everyone continued to go down, circled a few times, and could already dimly see the hanging coffin, we didn't see the 'we' in reverie, the hanging coffin was alone, and when we walked to the edge of the iron cable, there was really nothing, here is the same as last time before we left.
According to the agreement, Liu Sanyan Ajie and I went over to get the fire beads, and then we walked back. The bead was very smooth, I kept it in my hand, and they were very curious about the marijuana after climbing back, but they couldn't touch the fire bead like Applejack, which can only be a temporary mystery, and they can only wait to find the answer slowly after going out.
Suddenly, Miss Luo looked at Liu Sanyan with sharp eyes and said, "What are you hiding?" ”
Liu Sanyan covered his wrist and said: "How can there be a tomb robber who returns empty-handed, the one lying inside is also a fellow practitioner, it should be understandable, besides, I even keep the black armor in the center of the earth for him, and I can't take his watch to keep a souvenir?" ”
It turned out that Liu Sanyan took the plum blossom brand watch by the way when he took the pearl just now, this watch is not valuable, and it should not be worth mentioning for people like them.
"Forget it, let's hurry up and leave." Professor Wu said that he didn't think there was anything wrong with that.
Liu Sanyan raised his hand proudly, revealing the watch. At this time, the second uncle suddenly stared at the watch and said, "Can you show me this watch?" ”
"Yo? Brother has a hobby for watches? But this piece can't be given to you, and the third master will give you a piece of Swiss goods after it appears. Liu Sanyan said.
The second uncle said, "How can I ask for your things, but this watch looks familiar to me, and it looks very similar to my grandfather's." ”
"Like? Maybe it's the same paragraph, don't all the same looks the same? Liu Sanyan took off his watch suspiciously and looked at it in his hand.
"Is there a missing 'forest' engraved on the back of the dial?" The second uncle pointed to the watch in Liu Sanyan's hand and said.
Liu Sanyan rolled over and looked, and sure enough, he carved a word crookedly, and he had been looking at the traces for some years, and asked suspiciously: "How do you know?" ”
"How so? Impossible! "The second uncle was a little depressed, as if he was thinking about something.
Everyone knows that the second uncle has never touched a watch, and the light here is dim, and no matter how good his eyesight is, he can't see the words engraved on the back of the watch, how did he know? Hasn't the illusion been solved yet?
"Second uncle, when is it, do you know what to say quickly." I was in a hurry, so I asked my second uncle.
The second uncle eased his mind and said: "This watch is my grandfather's, that year's birthday, your grandfather specially bought his birthday gift, my brothers have never seen it, they are all vying to want, and then I want to secretly engrave my words, to prove that this watch will be mine in the future, anyway, when I was young, I felt that this thing would belong to me with its own label." As a result, your grandfather found out before he finished carving, and took the watch away. The reason why I feel familiar is because the strap was changed, and the original one broke when I was fighting with your father and uncle. Later, when my grandfather was buried, I remember very well that this watch was buried together, how could it be here? ”
At first we noticed that the strap didn't look so harmonious, but no one thought it was anything. At this time, hearing the second uncle say this, my brain couldn't turn around.
This watch belongs to my grandfather? How did you come to this tomb? I haven't met my grandfather, but when I visited the grave, I remember that it was engraved that he died in the eighties and lived to be seventy-eight years old. The one lying in the hanging coffin looked like he was in his early forties, could it be the illegitimate son of my grandfather? But I don't have any memory of this at all, is my family hiding a lot of things from me?
"Brother Zhang, is your grandfather's name Yang Zhuo?" Professor Wu opened his mouth to ask my second uncle, and my second uncle shook his head blankly and said, "I really don't know what my grandfather's real name is, but I heard that his surname is actually Yang." ”
"Are the fingers of his right hand particularly long? Particularly strong right hand? Miss Luo interjected.
The second uncle nodded in surprise: "It's very long, almost a knuckle longer than others." ”
Miss Luo and Professor Wu glanced at each other, and Professor Wu said solemnly: "Inferred from the time, Xiao Zhang's grandfather is in line, after the change in Qiongshan in 41 years, there is no news of Yangzhuo, if he is there, the result of the Han tomb in Shaanxi may be different." Okay, let's go out first, this is not a long talk after all. ”
Just as we were about to evacuate, the birdsong that had sounded twice before sounded again, this time perhaps closer, more harsh to hear, and the high chirp shook me a little, and then I felt the abyss shake.
"Let's go!"
I don't know who shouted, and everyone ran back desperately as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
"Chirp!"
The voice sounded again, and it approached quickly, and the abyss below seemed to be chased by an ancient beast, and the entire abyss was in turmoil.
"It's not good, this is a snake sparrow, I didn't expect the legendary beast to really exist, go, go!" Professor Wu was so anxious that he continued to urge, as if disaster had struck.
I subconsciously looked back at the abyss, only to see a huge beast crawling quickly under the hazy abyss, this monster was like a snake, but it had wings, and it swept up seven or eight meters in one piece.
"Don't look at its eyes, it will lose itself, don't care about anything, run as fast as you can!" Miss Luo pushed me and said in a rapid tone.
Everyone ran vigorously, I didn't run for long, I was really a little powerless, basically a few people were pushing and pulling, and I almost fell into the abyss several times.
As the snake bird chirped, as if the fog was churning, there was also a faint movement above, and there were quite a few voices to hear.
"The snake finch is calling for helpers, Applejack is leading the way, and Xiao Luo takes care of Xiao Zhang." Professor Wu hurriedly ordered, Ajie and the others walked ahead of the crowd, Liu Sanyan also volunteered to rush to the front, Miss Luo grabbed my arm with a knife in one hand and pulled me up.
After walking a few laps, there were a lot of big horses and birds rushing down on the plank road, as if they heard the call, they rushed over desperately, and some of them fell into the abyss on the way, but the ones behind were still headless.
Applejack and the others swept away with their guns, and the big horses and birds that rushed over fell into the abyss, and the fallen ones were squeezed down by the ones who came later.
The road ahead is blocked again.,There's a big boss in the back.,It's really a dead end.,It seems that everyone has to make dumplings.。
Just when I felt desperate, I only heard a "bang" below, and it turned out that it was the iron rope hanging from the coffin that stopped the snake finch that climbed up.
I only listened to the angry roar of the snake sparrow, and crashed into the hanging coffin again and again, but the strange thing is that although the hanging coffin was turbulent, it really stopped the snake sparrow.
"It turns out that the hanging coffin is here for the low-grade snake sparrow, I know, this is the 'Eight Dragons Soul Array', I'm afraid only Cai Geng has this skill." Professor Wu said, "Don't worry about the snake sparrow for the time being, you can also come forward to help Applejack and them." ”
Daiki nodded and walked forward.
Although there are a lot of big horse birds, Applejack and the others are well prepared, and under the suppression of modern weapons, they can't rush even one of them.
I don't know how many big horse birds I killed, and finally I was afraid of killing the big horse bird, and it is estimated that the snake finch also knew that it couldn't help us, so it didn't cry anymore, and the big horse bird behind it gradually retreated.
We hurried to run as hard as we could, and were destroyed by the big birds along the way, but luckily Applejack and the others were very skilled, and we were able to return to the flat ground without any stops, and crawled back to the cave along the rope we had left behind, which finally made me breathe a sigh of relief.
I don't know if it's because I'm holding the fire bead, so I didn't fall down again this time.
I really couldn't hold on, my physical strength was not very good, plus a high fever, I fell into a coma when I returned to the cave after this toss, and I remembered in a daze that they took turns to carry me back to the water ring where Liu Sanyan came in, and then I don't know how they went to find the oxygen cylinder that Liu Sanyan brought in, and tossed it out of the tomb.
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